Ben Allison (bass); Mamadou Diabate (kora); Michael Blake (saxophones); Frank Kimbrough (piano); Mike Sarin (drums); Peter Apfelbaum (saxophones); Tomas Ulrich (cello)
Palmetto
Recorded on March 30 and 31, 2002/Produced by Ben Allison and Matt Balitsaris.
Peter Apfelbaum (melodica, saxophone); Will Bernard (electric guitar); Bhima Karma (mridangam); Deszon X. Claiborne (drums); Sandy Cressman (vocals); DJ Quest (turntables); Gabby (percussion); Geoffrey Gordon (bells, bendir, caxixi, dholak, djembe, dumbek, frame drum, kanjira, percussion, udu); David V. Gregoli (classical guitar); Ben Leinbach (berimbau, composer, congas, cymbals, djembe, dotar, drum programming, acoustic guitar, kalimba, keyboards, shaker, tambourine, vocals); Keith McArthur (bass, composer, keyboards; Scheherazade Stone (vocals); Omar Faruk Tekbilek (ney; Jai Uttal (banjo, composer, dotar, ektara, flute, gopichard, gubgubbi, guitars, harmonica, harmonium, kartals, keyboards, sarod, vocals); Prem "Daddy" "Kit Walker" Vandan (Fender Rhodes)
The Pagan Love Orchestra: Jai Uttal (vocals, dotar, harmonium, gub gubbi, kartals, ektar, swaramandala, banjo, sampling, sequencing and a little guitar); Peter Apfelbaum (drums, tenor and soprano saxophones, melodica, African bells, vocals and mixing consultant); Will Bernard (electric and acoustic guitars); Jeff Cressman (trombones, cornet and band copyist); Geoffrey Gordon (table, dholak, hand drums, timbales and miscellaneous percussion); Keith McArthur (bass); Irene Sazer (violin and viola); Kit Walker (keyboards and Hammond B-3 organ)
Guest Artists: Maestro Swapan Chaudhuri (table, dholak and baya); Moinuddhin Khan (sarangi); Peck Allmond (trumpet); Steve Gorn (bansuri); Jan Jackson (drums); Rob Vlack (acoustic guitar, keyboards, sampling and sequencing); Kitty Beethoven (back-up vocals); Ledici Young (back-up vocals); Riffat Salamat Ali Khan (back-up vocals)
Triloka/Mercury
Recorded at Spark Studios, Emeryville, CA/Produced by Jai Uttal and Rob Vlack.
Jai Uttal (voice, dotar, harmonium, keyboards, sampling, ektar, gopichand, gubgubbi, mandolin, oud, banho, hartals); Peter Apfelbaum (soprano and tenor saxophone, drums, qarqabas, conga, percussion, organ, and piano); Will Bernard (electric guitar); Jeff Cressman (trombone, flugelhorn); Geoffrey Gordon (bandir, dunbek, tar, congas, bongoes, tabla, kanjira, percussion); Bruce Linde (bass); Irene Sazer (violin); Rob Vlack (keyboards); Mala Ganguly (voice and vocal shenai); Steve Gorn (bansur, flute); Fazal Qureshi (additional tablas and dholak)
Jai Uttal (acoustic guitar, guitar, mandolin, percussion, cymbals, harmonium, vocals, synthesizer guitar, sarod, sampling, dotar, gubgubbi, kartals, gopichard); Peter Apfelbaum (percussion, drums, tenor saxophone, qarqaba); Steve Gorn (flute, bansuri); Tamiya Lynn (background vocals); Peck Allmond (trumpet, cornet, horn, soprano saxophone); Will Bernard (acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric guitar, sampling); Tom Brechtlein (drums); Charlie Burham (violin); Mala Ganguly (vocals); Geoffrey Gordon (dumbek, percussion, bongos, drums, dholak, frame drum); Daniel Paul Kapp (table); Bruce Linde (bass); Rob Vlack (synthesizer, piano, accordion, Hammond organ, sampled keyboards)
Jai Uttal (vocals, acoustic guitar, dotar, gobichand, oud, mandolin, harmonium, keyboards, samples, sequencing); Will Bernard (acoustic & electric guitars); Irene Sazer (violin, viola); Peck Allmond (trumpet, cornet); Jeff Cressman (cornet, flugelhorn, trombone); Rob Vlack, Kit Wlaker (Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards); Bruce Linde, Keith McArthur (bass); Peter Apfelbaum (drums, congas, qarqabas, percussion); Geoffrey Gordon (dumbek, tablas, percussion).Additional personnel: Mala Ganguly, Lakshmi Shankar (vocals); Charlie Burnham (violin); Steve Gorn (bansuri flute); Don Cherry (trumpet); Jerry Watts (bass); Maestro Swapan Chauduri (dholak, baya); Fazal Qureshi, Daniel Paul (tabla).Personnel: Jai Uttal (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonium, keyboards, sampler); Mala Ganguly, Lakshmi Shankar (vocals); Will Bernard (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Irene Sazer (violin, viola); Charlie Burnham (violin); Steve Gorn (bansuri); Peck Allmond (trumpet, cornet); Jeff Cressman (cornet, flugelhorn, trombone); Rob Vlack, Kit Walker (keyboards); Keith McArthur, Bruce Linde, Jerry Watts (electric bass); Peter Apfelbaum (drums, congas, percussion)
Charlie Hunter (8-string guitar); Leon Parker (drums, percussion); Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax); Josh Roseman (trombone); Stephen Chopek (drums, percussion); Robert Perkins (drums, percussion)
Blue Note
Recorded and mixed at Avatar Studio, NY, January 19, 2000/Produced by Charlie Hunter and Joe Ferla.
Laurie Anderson (violin, vocals); Peter Apfelbaum (arranger, tenor sax); Joey Baron (drums); Vinicius Cantuária (arranger, composer, drums, wood flute, guitars, Indian flute, keyboards, percussion, piano, arranger, vocals); Steve Cohen (bass); Marivaldo Dos Santos (percussion); Mark Feldman (violin); Erik Friedlander (cello); Bill Frisell (guitar); Joyce Hammann (violin); Sean Lennon (bass); Michael Leonhart (arranger, trumpet); Arto Lindsay (composer, guitar); Lois Martin (viola); Mauro Refosco (percussion); Josh Roseman (trombone); Naná Vasconcelos (berimbau); Davi Vieira (percussion)
Verve
Produced by Vinicius Cantuária, Steve Cohen, Kenji Shimoda, Lee Townsend, and Hans Wendl.
Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax); Art Baron (trombone); Steven Bernstein (slide trumpet, trumpet); Gina Leishman (accordion, arranger, bass clarinet, Hammond organ, baritone sax); Marcus Rojas (tuba); Doug Wieselman (arranger, balalaika, bass clarinet, E-flat clarinet, Hammond organ, baritone sax, tenor sax); Kenny Wollesen (drums, percussion)
Koch
Recorded March 5, 1997 - March 1, 1998/Produced by Gina Leishman and Doug Wieselman.
Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax, claro-sax, clarinet, recorder); Steven Bernstein (trumpet, piccolo trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, tuba); Jeff Cressman (trombone, baritone horn, slide whistle); Danny Frankel (drums, percussion); Bob Lipton (tuba); Gina Leishman (alto sax, bass clarinet, accordion, ukelele, piano, keyboards, vocals); Doug Wieselman (soprano, alto, tenor & baritone saxes, clarinet, electric guitar, mandolin, ukelele, penny whistle)
New World Records
Recorded at Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, CA/Produced by Gina Leishman and Doug Wieselman.
Personnel: Ann Dyer (vocals); Hafez Modirzadeh (tenor saxophone, karna); Peter Apfelbaum (tenor saxophone); Rob Burger (accordion); Carla Kihlstedt (violin); Jeff Buenz (acoustic & electric guitars); Rob Vlack, E. Blake Davis (guitar); John Shifflett (acoustic & electric basses); Jason Lewis (drums, tabla)
Intuition
Recorded at The Hut, Berkeley, California on March 2-4, 1999/Produced by Brian Bacchus and Ann Dyer.
Joe McPhee (trumpet); Lisle Ellis (guitar); Marco Eneidi (saxophone); Peter Apfelbaum (piano); Dana Reason (piano)
Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, doussn'gouni, vocals, flute, melodica, piano); A Watts Prophet, Anthony, Hamilton, Ingrid Sertso (vocals); Frank Serafine, David Cherry (synthesizer); John L. Price (drum programming); Bo Freeman (bass); Mark London Sims (bass); Karl Berger (marimba, vocals); Bob Stewart (tuba); Carlos Ward - alto saxophone); Naná Vasconcelos (percussion); Ed Blackwell, Deszon X. Claiborne (drums); Peter Apfelbaum (tenor saxophone, cowbell, marimba, organ, synthesizer, bells, gong, palitos, vocals); Jessica Jones, Tony Jones (tenor saxophone); Joshua Jones (drums, timbales, cowbell, vocals); Robert Huffman (congas, bell tree, vocals); Peck Allmond (baritone saxophone); Jeff Cressman (trombone, vocals); Frank Ekeh (shekere, dunun, vocals); Stan Franks, Will Bernard (guitar); James Harvey (trombone); Bill Ortiz (trumpet, vocals); Allen Ginsberg, Claudia Engelhart, Karen Knight (chorus)
A&M
Recorded at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, CA on December 27, 1988; Fantasy Recording Studios in Berkeley, CA on November 7, and 8, 1989; BMG Recording Studios in New York City on November 20, 1989 and January 20, 1990; and at Serafine Studios in Santa Monica, CA on February 23, 1990/Produced by John Snyder and Steve Ralbovsky.
Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, keyboards, doussin gouni, melodica, African percussion, flute and vocals); Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax, keyboards, flute and percussion); Bo Freeman (bass); Joshua Jones: drums, tabla)
V.I.E.W. Video
Recorded at the Days of Jazz Festival, Stuttgart, Germany in 1994.
Byron Allred (piano, synthesizer, synthesizer brass); Rick Anderson (bass); Peter Apfelbaum (clarinet); Mary Arnold (vocals); Keta Bill (vocals); Vernon "Ice" Black (guitar); Jim Blinn (trombone); Brent Bourgeois (Hammond organ, synthesizer, vocals); Paul Brancato (strings); Kim Cataluna, Clarence Clemons, Vince Ebo, Shirley Faulkner, Emma Jean Foster, Paul Gilbert, Michele Gray, Skyler Jett, Melisa Kary, Eric Martin, Scott Mathews, Kelly Moneymaker, Jenni Muldaur, Vicki Randle, Paul Scott, Cary Sheldon, Shandi Sinnamon, Bryan Thym, Jeanie Tracy (choir/chorus); Roberta Freier (strings); Nate Ginsberg (synthesizer); John Hampton (vocals); Stefan Hersh (strings); Barbara Imhoff (harp); Randy Jackson (bass); Raz Kennedy (vocals); Ralph Legnini (tambourine); Mingo Lewis (congas); Scott Moon (synthesizer); Bruce Paine (trombone); Michael Pluznick (congas, shaker); Roger Powell (synthesizer); Prairie Prince (drums, percussion); Jimmy Pugh (Hammond organ); Mike Rose (trumpet); Nathan Rubin (strings); Todd Rundgren (arranger, composer, guitar); Paul Shaghoian (trumpet); N.D. Smart II, Bill Spooner, Annie Stocking (vocals); Bobby Strickland (flute, baritone sax , tenor sax); Kasim Sulton (bass); Larry Tagg (bass, vocals); John Tenney (strings); Michael Urbano (drums, timbales); Narada Michael Walden (choir master); Vince Welnick (accordion, composer, piano, synthesizer); Jon Wilcox (drums); Bobby Womack (vocals); Lyle Workman (guitar); Gary Yost (tambourine)
Epic
Recorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA and The Plant Studios, Sausalito, CA/Produced by Todd Rundgren.
Peter Apfelbaum (saxophone); Kymberli Armstrong (composer, vocals); Larry Bradford (keyboards); Fred Busby (composer, vocals); Richard Carter (bass, composer, keyboards; Freddie Flewelen (bass); Michelle JoJo Hailey (composer, vocals); Jay Lincoln (keyboards); Byron Blu Mitchell (arranger, composer, vocal arrangement, vocals); Bill Ortiz (flugelhorn, trumpet); Dave Pensado (drum programming, synthesizer); Travon Potts (composer, drum programming, keyboards, synthesizer); Timothy Christian Riley (keyboards); John Jubu Smith (guitar); Terry T. (bass, composer, drums, keyboards); Charles Veal (concert master); C. Von Parchman (drums); D'Wayne Wiggins (bass, composer, drum programming, guitar, synthesizer, vocal arrangement, vocals)
Motown
Recorded at Aire La Studios, Glendale, CA; Live Oak Studio, Berkeley, CA; Pajama Studios, Oakland, CA; Paradise Studios; Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, CA/Produced by Darrale Jones, Jay Lincoln, Steve McKeever, Dave Pensado, Travon Potts, D'Wayne Wiggins.
Peter Apfelbaum (saxophone); George Alexander (trumpet); Bernard Anderson (saxophone); Larry Bradford (keyboards, organ); David Burgin (harp); Faye Carol (vocals); Pete Escovedo (percussion, timbales); Bobby Forte (saxophone); Clark Gayton (trombone, trumpet); Freddie Hughes (vocals ); Adrian Isabell (percussion); Ben Jones (trumpet); Kraig Kilby (trumpet); Robbie Kwock (trumpet); John Parrish (trumpet); Johnny Talbot (guitar, harp, keyboards); George Thomson (strings); Johnny Tolbert; (composer); Jeanie Tracy (vocals); John Turk (keyboards, synthesizer, vocals); Cal Valentine (vocals); Leon Williams (saxophone); Sharon Wood (strings)
Peter Apfelbaum (saxophone); Kim Atkinson (percussion); Baron Chase (drums); Zakir Hussain (table); Steve Kindler (composer, drums, guitar, percussion, piano, synthesizer, violin); Tom Martin (contrabass, contrabass trombone); Tommy Martin (contrabass); S.S. Ellis Blue Schildson (synthesizer)
Mesa/Bluemoon
Produced by Steve Kindler, George Nauful, and Jim Snowden.
Steve Kindler (synthesizer, percussion, violin, ukulele, plucked violin); Peter Apfelbaum (marimbas, baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, melodic); David Friesen (bass); Brock Bradford (percussion); Frank Ekeh (percussion, electric bass, electric guitar; Isaac Epps (percussion); Larry Grenadier (violin, viola bastarda); Clay Henry (percussion); Aaron Stone (percussion); Sulubika (flute, alto flute, ocarina, penny whistle, Native American flute); Peter Velasquez Jr. (percussion); Sam Siegel (percussion); Mark Schillinger (keyboards)
Global Pacific
Produced by Steve Kindler, Barklie Henry and Clay Henry.
